"I watched him die. I don't know what to say about that. I don't know who would do something like that at a time like this," Smith said.

Just after 11:30 p.m., police responded to Smith's home on South Stanley Street where two people had been shot. One victim suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to the hospital. Authorities pronounced Sanders dead on the scene.

"It hurts so bad. Melvin had a girlfriend who was pregnant. He had a son that he loved very much."

Smith said Sanders had recently enrolled in a local program to improve his life. She said she hopes that one day people won't lose loved ones to the end of a gun barrel.